How come a series that has a straight forward TPS mechanic were hard to replicate when it was peak in popularity? Most companies tried, but ended up making a cheap-knock off. But one game I'm aware of that managed to be unique while retaining Gears gameplay style is Binary Domain.
>>744230782Lack of enemy design. A lot of the cover shooters that scrambled to copy Gears of War ended up being generic military types, COD but with sticking to walls. Enemies are just soldier mooks with gubs and generic mostly-nonthreatening AI. You could kind of say that about Gears 1, but then look at all the new enemy types added in Gears 2 and how most of them revolve around making the player move, exposing themselves temporarily out of cover, or prioritize targets while another enemy moves to a new position. The notable exception being the Grinder, which does the opposite and tries to force the player to not move and lose control of the sightlines. Gears 2 learned from Gears 1's base and built off it. Other games didn't learn anything, they just copied Gears 1 with less personality.
>>744232275Fair point. Making either aliens or terminator alike robots as an enemy faction would create more freedom and creative ideas.
>>744232275Meant to say mooks with guns, not gubs.Also as another example, the Mauler was so good at its job in Gears 2, they felt like they had to nerf its AI in Gears 3 for Horde.
>>744232636forgot my image
>>744232705Wow, Sega and Yakuza team copied the Gears series to literally. I'm not complaining tho.
>>744232275Encounter design is a big one too, if you play gears of war judgement which was made by a lesser studio it feels like one of the cheap knockoffs in how it plays even though it has all the gears enemies.
>>744233096I wouldn't be surprised it was made with a short deadline due to contract reason from Microsoft. Like how did they made the prequel story of Braid and Cole Train soo boring? Also>game completely retcon the creation of Chainsaw Lancer
>>744233096Judgement's campaign is ok imo. There's some good spots, and there's some questionable spots. The final boss encounter on Insane with the optional elite enemy spawns is nightmarish because the map is a big circle where enemies can spawn from multiple directions, and the cover is all facing towards the center. and half the cover gets destroyed throughout the fight.
Is it possible to play judgment on pc in the year of our lord 2026?
>>744234180Either emulate it on Xenia or wait for someone to recompile the game just like Gears 2: Hollow, Sonic Unleashed and Skate 3.
>>744234180I beat it using Xenia Canary, there were a few points where the graphics broke but restarting the emulator fixed it each time. I was running it through WINE though, it may be fine on windows.
>>744230782gears had a top tier lore and like 5 different enemie factions
Hey does anyone know anything about this? I have Gears 3 on Xenia Canary and it runs except, like it hates certain directions. Like when I look certain directions, lets say east and west, the game runs perfect. But when I look north/south the game slows to a crawl, like 2 frames per 4 seconds and the entire game is in jilted slow motion. then i look back east/west and once the game catches up it's perfect again.
>>744230782When is the Gears of War 3 pc recomp coming out? I need it!I finished Gears of War 1 redux and Gears of War 2 hollow. I checked Delta but that doesn't have a campaign, I'm only interested in the campaign.also for anyone that's interested, someone made a mod that lets you switch characters for the campaign in Gears of War 2 hollow
>>744234989I read that the hollow recomp doesnt save progress properly was that fixed?
>>744234938Try xenia edge or xenia manager, I heard it's easier to mess with xenia's settings and applying patches. Maybe that will help.or ask ai
>>744230782Gears of war is the cheap knockoff of vanquish
>>744235456Sorry idk, I didn't know that was a thing, and if it did happened to me I didn't noticed.
>>744234040The story is pretty good and actually feels like Gears unlike 4/5.
>>744230782Why didnt they stick to the dark rainy gritty style? In 2 half of the game was already above ground in the sunlight, by 3 youre barely underground at all and there was barely any dark nighttime rainy environments. The lambent enemies work fine but have them be like a deep underground thing
>>744230782They didn't notice it was an arcade game, a few mechanics that were perfected, each of them offers a challenge, even reloading. They copied Michael Bay's movie and shooting from the cover
>>744230782>all these years later>still no reloading minigame outside of this seriesWhy? Its kino, did they trademark it or something?
>>744236314Most devs and game designers just find it unnecessary because they think it distract the gameplay and the flow.
>>744230782Army of Two tried it and I don't remember anything from that game aside from the secret bro handshakes.
>>744235456>>744235697Yeah, the GOW2: Hollow PC port has problems.Like missing post processing effects, lack of checkpoint besides chapter save and some graphical glitches. It uses the leaked build that was made month early rather than the retail one.
>>744235767You can tell Coalition tried to pull a fast one like 343 did by having Kait being front and center. 3 ended on such a decent note that everything after was just an excuse to money grub. The fact that they want to retcon shit with Dom and his big bro proves they've been spinning their wheels since he jumped in that truck at peace.
>>744230782>run and gunfun depends on abilities or gun properties>cover shootersfun depends on level designSame problem with why can't budget produce infinitely better quality game. Design can't be brute forced.
>>744236787Isn't the series whole selling points are coop and team-work?
>>744236968>2012>Gears of War 3 just finished development>What do we do next?Should've just done a Pendulum War games>b-but people don't want to fight other people!11oneone>no enemy variety!if you never wanted to fight hordes of indies with some enemies being in the UIR version of a silverback or a king raven, you aren't an actual gears fanbesides they could've had segments where you play as RAAM because the Locust-Lambent war was happening concurrently with the last 10 years of the Pendulum wars anyway. win/win scenario as long as devs leaned into foreshadowing
>>744237397The prologue of 4 where you fight with Dom in the pendulum wars is one of the best parts of the game. I loved everything about that prologue from that, to E-Day, to V-Day.
>>744237669pretty much this desuthe end of 3 should've been a signal for all kinds of prequels to be made btw, especially for these comic characters who actually made it into a game like pic relatedoh wait, i forgot TC can't portray smoking in their mature dude bro games lmaoooo
>>744237832That's what happens when new teams work on the pre-existing franchise without the original creators involvement just like Star Wars.TC finally figured out after Gears 4 and 5 flopped.
>>744230782I never got that from the multiplayer. Everyone wall bouncing all over the place and if you tried to do it it would just make you roll
>>744237832This is why I’m cautiously optimistic about emergence day. There’s no Kait or swarm bullshit, but I still worry that the coalition will fuck it up in some way.
>>744238162That's the reason why coop and horde mode exist.
>>744238162Multiplayer in gears fundamentally cannot work when you have a weapon like the gnasher that fucks up the cover system completely, they tried shit with Judgement and 4 but unless it's pure PvE like horde it's just not gonna work. 3 had the right idea with sawed-off but it didn't replace the gnasher like it should have.
>>744238487>single stick kids from gears 5 thinking they can run the joint on DEON>waiting with sawed off around the corner>chunk>game too easy>jump to horde mode on insane>boltok enemy across the map>mfw>pic related
>>744230782Unironically level designToo tired to kill Locust? Throw a grenade, fire a torque bow or bommshot the holeToo lazy to dump entire mags of lancer on enemies? Chainsaw them or shoot them in the legs to incapacitate them and take them out later, or just powershot a longshot on any random part of the body, kills 99% of enemies in 1 hit even on InsaneWanna feel powerful a bit? You can carry the Hammer of Dawn with you for a little more (granted this is on act 4 but it trivializes a rather difficult fight)The mechanics and level design are superb in Gears 1 while slowly decading over the sequels, the versality of what you're allowed to do is something that too many ripoffs ignored.
>>744238701I hope they bring Sofia back in E-Day.
>>744239732monkey's paw. have you seen the women in E-Day? you'd be lucky if you got something like pic related
>>744234830>>744236161>>744237059>>744238831This. It's rather baffling that game designers always forget that level designs and enemy varieties are important as well.>>744239732Maybe as a playable character for multiplayer mode because Marcus and Dom don't meet Braid and Cole during E-day.
The weighty feel of Gears felt unique. I liked stuff like Vanquish as well for doing something different, games like Outriders just felt like a shitty knock off with endless respawning enemies wete every encounter felt so weightless and pointless, Gears felt like a summer blockbuster
>>744239732I am not interested in any woman from any western series after the year 2015.
>>744238162wall bouncing and the shotgun killed mp
>>744240073>Studio (People can Fly) behind BulletStorm and support team for Gears games made OutridersHow did they screw it up?
>>744238701>>744239732
>>744240542gears women pre-2016 are so underratedespecially in the comics
>>744237397>What do we do next?If you mean Epic Games, Fortnite.
>>7442406085 was shit but I’d fuck Lizzie carmine desu.
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>>744232275>GrinderI still at random moments just mimic the word “Grind” the way they do.
>>744239732>>744240542Imagine the smell
>>744234989>When is the Gears of War 3 pc recomp coming out?Probably sooner or later. Since the 360 recompiled projects are in steady progress.
>>744244275I do and I need to fuck the source.
>>744245252One is from Valkyria Chronicles 4, I think.
